Not knowing whether,
among the mass of
radio messages, you have
read about Kautsky’s
book, I am sending you
this excerpt separately.
It seems to me, from
what I am able to read
of our literature, that
we have not thrown
sufficient light on the role
of state capitalism under
proletarian political
power, a role which has
escaped Kautsky. What
we have is not yet
communism, but state
capitalism, with
inequality of remuneration
including piecework
payment, with forms of
compulsion, sometimes
reproducing the old
regime, with centralised
management even of
production and a restricted
factory
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self–
administration. We have a Red
Army of state capitalism
with an apparatus of
very strong compulsion,
and not an army of
communism....